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proserpine's Usage Examples:

At Cyzicus also, in Asia Minor, bulls were sacrificed to Proserpine.

They celebrated the festival of Demeter when the corn began to shoot, and the descent of Proserpine when it was ripe.

From the head of a dying person Proserpine was supposed to cut a lock of hair which had been kept sacred and unshorn through life.

According to Theopompus there was a Western people who actually called the spring Proserpine.

So all that year not a blade of corn grew on the earth, and men would have died of hunger if Zeus had not persuaded Pluto to let Proserpine go.

Proserpine herself was commonly known as the daughter (Core), sometimes as the first-born.

In Greek mythology Demeter and Proserpine were closely associated, being known together as the two goddesses, the venerable or august goddesses, sometimes as the great goddesses.

PROSERPINE (Proserpina), the Latin form of Persephone,' a Greek goddess, daughter of Zeus and the earth-goddess Demeter.

The central fact of her cult was the story of her daughter Persephone (Proserpine), a favourite subject in classical poetry.

392 ff.); a second festival, in August, to celebrate the reunion of Ceres and Proserpine, in which women, dressed in white, after a fast of nine days offered the goddess the first-fruits of the harvest (Livy xxii.

proserpine's Meaning':

goddess of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Persephone